MLK Day on the Net Holidays on the Net Additional Holiday Celebrations peo ples 1997 Zoe Levenglick-Volpe (age 11) Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott On the 1st of December 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks, an African-American seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat. It was an established rule in the American south (at that ...